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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />= <br /> <br />Minutes of Ramsey Focus Group Meeting <br /> <br />DATE: December 3,1997 <br /> <br />TO: Focus Group Members and City Staff <br /> <br />SUBJECT: December 2, 1997, Focus Group Meeting <br />~ <br />Prepared by Fred Hoisington <br /> <br />-.:: <br /> <br />Present: <br />Focus Group Members: Gerald Bauer, Margaret Connolly, Chns Dempsey, Blaine Edmundson, John <br />Enstrom, Del Fredricks, Terry Hendrickson, Wayne Jefferies, Tom Kurak, Cindy Wirz. Jeanette Monear, <br />Stan Peiche~ Ray Renner, Paul Riley, Erick4 Sitz, Mike Sjoquist, Terri Svare and Marlys Williams <br />Others Present: Mayor Tom Gamec, Councilmember Jerry Zimme1"l11lm. Sylvia ProJik, Brad Scheib. and <br />Fred liQisinglon. <br /> <br />The meeting began at 7:05 p.m. at the Anoka Electric Cooperative facility. Pred Hoisington asked if there <br />were any corrections to the November 10, 1997, organizational meeting minutes. Hearing none the <br />minutes were allowed to stand. <br /> <br />Fred Hoisington introduced Brad Scheib, a rnember of his staff, to present additional background <br />information regarding process, existing land use, transportation functional classification, etc. Fred <br />Hoisington then presented a brief summary of the Decision Resource's Community Survey of 400 <br />randomly selected households. <br /> <br />Fred explained that two questions are to be answered this evening. The first is selection of issues from <br />the prepared list of ten issues that came from the Special Interest Group meetings and the community <br />survey. Issues identified included MUSA expansion; growth; housing; density of population; <br />traffic/congestion; improved Mississippi River crossing; parks, recreation and trails; Protection of rural <br />lifestyle or character; protection of individual property rights and property taxes. Fred asked if there were <br />any of these that are not appropriate to be considered as part of the Comprehensive Planning process? It <br />was agreed that open spaces be added to the parks, recreation and trails issue and property taxes be <br />dropped as an issue for further discussion. <br /> <br />The second question having to do with issues definition, three of the nine issues were discussed including <br />Mississippi River crossing, traffic/congestion, and growth (commerciallindustrial and residential growth <br />were split). A summary of the conclusions of each of the issues discussed follows: <br /> <br />Issue: Improve MississiDDi River Crossing <br /> <br />Perspective <br />Support <br /> <br />Perspective <br />OPPosition <br /> <br />· Will alleviate <br />congestion <br />· Will eliminate <br />Congestion on <br />Highway 47 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />· Will increase congestion <br />somewhere else <br /> <br />COllclusion: All support a new or improved crossing. There is no issue warranting resolution at chis <br />time. <br /> <br />2t:~t L6, v0 J3a <br /> <br />20d 8v6 <br /> <br />~31930~ N019NISIOH <br /> <br />8~898~~-2t9 <br />